On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:39:56 -0600 Bill Gatliff <bgat@billgatliff.com> wrote: > The whole "locale thing" is kinda opaque to me, but as I'm > debootstrapping a grip/armel setup right now I'm dealing with it > firsthand. So go forth and.... do whatever. :) 1. Strip out translation files to separate packages 2. Only download the translation packages you need -> you get smaller downloads and less work for the device. 3. Debian gets easier translation updates during a release freeze. localepurge is not suitable, it fails on 1, 2 and 3 of the criteria above. > When I did my debootstrap, the resulting system didn't complain about > locales at all. Not satisfied with that :), IIRC I installed locales, > and things got interesting. I've seen these errors before, and I'm > seeing them now: > > ... > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > LANGUAGE = (unset), > LC_ALL = (unset), > LANG = "en_US" > are supported and installed on your system. #!/bin/sh unset LANG sudo chroot ... > It didn't help that the machine OOM'ed when generating the locales with > dpkg-reconfigure -plow. And localepurge isn't in grip yet. locaelpurge will not be in Grip - it's cruft. Grip has a genuine implementation of locale support that supercedes localepurge. > > Should langupdate be uploaded to Debian experimental? > > > > I think so. > > > The alternative is cross-building langupdate for all supported Grip > > architectures. > > > > I really like keeping everything coupled with Debian proper where > possible. So I say don't go this route unless you identify a compelling > reason. Except langupdate isn't at all coupled with Debian - at least not for *two* complete release cycles in Debian. That's a long time. > > One remaining issue is that the TDebs themselves are in a bit of a > > state in the repository and so my next task is to finish porting > > em_autogrip to perl from shell and getting the cron job restarted to > > maintain the Grip repository automatically. > > > > Yea, I've been hitting the repo pretty hard this week---- and generally > loving what I'm finding there! Lots more still needs to be done - there are various areas that are in a bit of a mess. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/
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